Why thighs are the new 'it' body part

On the #thighreading hashtag and why thighs just might become the new “it” body part for feminists.

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Is there a less loved part of a woman’s body than her thighs? Companies try to pretend they don't exist, there’s a machine dedicated just to exercise them and — let’s admit — it’s probably low on the list of body parts most of us are happy with.

Maybe that's why we've never noticed that they have some impressive powers.

It began with Twitter user @princess_labia posting a musing imagine of the stretch marks on her thighs, comparing their stories to the ones that fortune tellers claim to see in the lines of our hands.

The idea took off worldwide, with thousands of women of every age posting their own #thighreadingimages on Twitter and Instagram.

“It’s especially exciting because you get responses like, ‘I didn’t realize how many girls had this’ or ‘it makes me feel more comfortable having these’ or ‘the more I look at them the more beautiful I realize they are,” @princess_labia told MTV.

The problem with thighs, she continued, is that there’s no “normal” because the images we see are so stylized.

Women took #thighreading not just as a call for body positivity, but a chance to share the struggles their thighs have seen — and, more importantly, carried them through to the next adventure.